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Notes that two Exhibitions of the College, the gift of Sir Ambrose Cave, are payable from the Manor of Nuneaton, which is now in the hands of WA. Notes that there are six years in arrears to the College and asks for payment.

Typescript copy of a petition to the exiled King James II, that he send the petitioner a Royal Certificate of his being a gentleman pursuant. Lincoln writes that he has, for several years, been well settled in London, working as a merchant. However, due to inaction, he will quit the city and transfer to Spain, where he intends to remain for the rest of his life. A certificate would be advantageous for him, since it would allow Lincoln to be formally recognised as a member of a good and noble family. He asks that his Majesty consider the petitioner on account of his known loyalty to him.

Miscellaneous letters and certificates concerning individual members of the Lincoln family, primarily during the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Also includes handwritten genealogies and correspondence between St John's College and relatives of Jean Louis Lincoln, regarding the accession of Lincoln's personal papers.

Collection of laminated copies of manuscript documents, bearing the stamp of the Bibliothèque Royale. The documents primarily concern a petition made to the exiled King James II by Andrew Lincoln in 1694, that the King approve his right to bear arms and to supply him with a letter of recommendation.

An artificial collection consisting of four separate deposits made by members of the Whytehead family between 1938 and 1944. The papers relate principally to William Whytehead (d. 1817), Henry Robert Whytehead (1773-1818), Thomas Whytehead (1815-43, see ODNB) and Robert Yates Whytehead (1846-1938).

With other letters from John Ward, J. Atkinson in Hull, M. de Clugny, a Miss R. Whytehead, perhaps a sister of William or Henry. 1768-c. 1800 and undated, mostly 1790s. The letters relate for the most part to domestic courtesies and to the enthusiastic borrowing and return of books and magazines, though some touch on servants, wartime taxation, military preparations in the East Riding, globes on sale in London, a botanic microscope, tithes, mad dogs, the Keyingham Level Drainage Bill and other matters. According to a label on the original folder they were found in a secret drawer of a bureau at Rolston Hall, near Hornsea, c. 1860. Held with a silhouette of and an obituary for Henry Robert Whytehead, contributed by G[eorge] W[eight] to an Appendix to the Christian Observer for 1818, and a certificate of admission of Sara, Maria and Elizabeth Reynolds to a copyhold in Kettendon, 7 June 1694.

Laminated card copy of a petition to the exiled King James II, that he send the petitioner a Royal Certificate of his being a gentleman pursuant. Lincoln writes that he has, for several years, been well settled in London, working as a merchant. However, due to inaction, he will quit the city and transfer to Spain, where he intends to remain for the rest of his life. A certificate would be advantageous, since it would allow Lincoln to berecognised as a member of a good and noble family. He asks that his Majesty consider the petitioner on account of his known loyalty to him.

Laminated card copy of a manuscript ratification of Andrew Lincoln's right to bear arms. Includes a genealogy, which traces the noble descent of the Lincoln family. Issued in response to a petition by Andrew Lincoln to James II. [c.f. Lincoln B/3/4].